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110 cases under the Chinese exclusion laws, before the Supreme Court of the United States.

Incidental to his law practice and official duties, Mr. Ashton was connected with the law faculty of Georgetown university, Washington, District of Columbia, from 1870 to 1874, as professor of pleading, practice and evidence; and in 1878 he became one of the founders of the American Bar Association. In 1880, at the meeting of the International Sanitary Conference, held in Washington, he was present as a special law delegate. In later years he edited volumes nine to twelve, inclusive, of "Opinions of the Attorney-Generals of the United States."

Mr. Ashton has taken high rank among American lawyers as a man of varied legal knowledge, large experience, and brilliant and solid attainments. His personal and intimate acquaintance with the public men and measures of the last half century, has been very extensive, while his constant touch with matters vitally concerning the organic legislation of the United States and its interpretation, has made him one of our valuable commentators.

He received the degree of M.A. from the University of Pennsylvania, 1858, and that of LL.D. from Georgetown university, in 1872.

On October 11, 1864, Mr. Ashton married Hannah R. Wakeman, at New York.